Once upon a time there lived a mouse sister and a magpie sister. One day a mouse got ready for work and said to the magpie:
“I, magpie sister, will go get some hay, and in the meantime, you clean up the house and set the soup to cook.”
The mouse left, and the magpie began to clean up and cook soup. She cooked and cooked soup, and then fell into the pot upside down.
The mouse came home and knocked:
- Sister-magpie, open up!
I knocked for a long time, but no one answered. She scurried into the hole, went into the barn, swept away the hay and again ran into the hut. But no, the magpie sister is not there.
Then the mouse took the soup out of the stove to eat, and then she saw the magpie sister in the pot. What can you do, she ate the magpie meat, and dragged the brisket-boat to the river, sat in it and sang:
The mouse floats and sways:
Her boat is a magpie's breastbone,
The oar is a beaver tail,
Pole - pull out the tail,
Sable tail sail.
It will row under the steep bank,
Under the sandy shore - it will push you.
A hare comes towards you and says:
- Sister mouse, take me into the boat.
- I won’t take it, my boat is small.
- Well, at least I’ll put one paw up, I’ll stand on one...
- Well, what should I do with you, sit down. The two of them swam further, the mouse sang again:
The mouse floats and sways:
Her boat is a magpie's breastbone,
The oar is a beaver tail,
Pole - pull out the tail,
The sail is a sable tail.
It will paddle under the steep bank,
Under the sandy bank he will push you.
They met a fox and said:
- Sister mouse, take me into the boat.
- I won’t take it, my boat is small.
- Well, at least I’ll put one paw up, I’ll stand on one...
- Well, what should I do with you, sit down. The three of them swim, the mouse sings its song again:
The mouse floats and sways:
Her boat is a magpie's breastbone,
Paddle beaver tail,
Pole - pull out the tail,
The sail is a sable tail.
It will paddle under the steep bank,
Under the sandy bank he will push you.
They met a bear and said:
- Sister mouse, take me into the boat.
- I won’t take it, my boat is small.
“Well, at least I’ll put one leg up and stand on one.”
- No, you will take up a lot of space and capsize the boat.
“Then I’ll sit down so she doesn’t roll over.” The bear got into the boat and drowned everyone!
Translated from Russian · original on wisdomlib.ru